The Boston Globe, August 7th, 1999
If you happened not to be right there on the spot (as some 3,000 of us were) but close enough to see and hear Wednesday night's fireworks, you may have been wondering what the occasion was. Well, here's your answer -- to commemorate the signing of the Peace of Aix- la-Chapelle in October 1748. Is that clear? We should hope not. The story goes like this. In 1740 Frederick the Great of Prussia, then 28, started the War of the Austrian Succession by conquering Silesia. Peace came eight years later by means of the aforesaid treaty, which pretty much restored the status quo -- apart, that is, from ...
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